[Facebook][Spotify] Showing wrong tracks

[Goodman]

Thread: 241060

Status: Resolved

Description

Two seemingly related issues:

Facebook doesn't show the track that was actually played

When copying and pasting a track URI from Spotify the pasted track is not what was copied in Spotify.

Additional information

From the original thread:

"When I listen to music it shows music I don't even listen to... It's pretty odd o-o
I've found one track in particular that is reading wrong. Philter – The Protagonist which is reading as Groove Armada – My Friend.

I also know a lot of friends music has been doing the same. It's really odd o-o"

More screenshots are also available in the original thread.

Updates

2013-01-10: Added information that it might not only be Facebook; rather Spotify providing wrong info for played/copied tracks

2013-03-05: This was resolved.

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[corin_ja]

I think this is happening to me as well. I initially thought it might be someone who had hacked my account but connections have been reset and I have changed my password twice on a secure machine so I doubt it's that. I just played 'All the Madmen' by David Bowie and it came up as 'In the Crowd' by The Jam. I have several other examples from yesterday.

[SteveBrammer]

There is definitely something strange going on with activity logging in Facebook. Below is a screen-shot of an excerpt from my activity log (on January 4th) where I was playing the Flight of the Conchords album from start to finish and as you can see there are two bogus tracks (highlighted in red) that I never played. I have a few other examples as well. Can't see any pattern right now to tie them together.

[Kara88]

Happening to me too.  Todd Rungren's album Something/Anything?: the first track shows on Facebook as a Scissor Sisters song, the second as something similarly random and awful that I have never, ever listened to.

[YouKS]

Not just on facebook. Some tracks are being redirected as others completely unrelated. I right-clicked on a song right now and copied the HTTP link, pasted it into my browser and some other song's page came back.

This is supposed to be Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head not some Björk song: Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head

[SteveBrammer]

Further to my earlier post...

I have found that the bogus tracks I am seeing in the Facebook activity log are not being scobbled to last.fm.

Those two tracks in my earlier post do no show up in last.fm which just shows that I listened to the whole album, as I said earlier. Other bogus tracks that I have found in my Facebook activity log are also not registered by last.fm.

p.s. It's a bit irritating that you seem to have disabled the ability to edit your own earlier posts in this forum. I would have preferred to add this extra information to my original post but I can't.

[Kara88]

Listening to another Todd Rungren album, Faithful - track 4 (which should be Most Likely you'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine), shows up as I Wonder Why by Curtis Stigers on Facebook.

I have embarrassing enough listening tastes without random crappery like this being thrown into the mix...

[johngpriest]

Same issue. 

"Take Everything"  and "Looking On Down From the Bridge" by Mazzy Star are showing in my Facebook app activity as "Fear of A Black Planet" by Porcupine Tree, and "Silent Treatment" by The Roots. 

It's funny and all but it's also incredibly annoying. 

[user-removed]

Hi,

Same problem on my side.

From today all track on my facebook activity box is wrong.

"Music" tab and "spotify" tab on facebook still also empty : http://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Won-t-Post-to-Facebook/td-p/6025/page/33

Best regards

[AutumnUK]

This is happening for me too! I couldn't tell you specifically which tracks it's mis registering but I've been having a solid Radiohead listen and Facebook's saying I'm listening to Jimmy Eat World... very bizarre.

[fvalcruz]

Same here.

All the data in the music sections of the Facebook timeline has also disappeared.